Mac OS X Leopard - ARCAism

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CHAPTER 11 MAIL, ADDRESS BOOK, AND iCAL
To create a new To Do item, click the To Do
button on the toolbar, or select File ➤ New To Do
(Opt+Cmd+Y). This will create a new item in your
To Do list and ask you for the title, due date, priority,
calendar, and whether you want to set an alarm
for it (pretty much the same information you are
asked in iCal).
NOTE Interestingly, by default the keyboard
command to create a new To Do item in Mail
(Opt+Cmd+Y) is different from the keyboard shortcut
in iCal (Cmd+K). This is rarity in the Mac world,
and it wouldn’t be surprising if in the future one of
these changes so they are the same.
Reading RSS Feeds in Mail
Another new feature in the latest version of Mail is
the ability to subscribe to an RSS feed in Mail. If
you set your default RSS reader to Mail (either in
Mail or in Safari’s RSS preferences), then whenever
you select an RSS link, you will be prompted to add
the news feed in Mail. Otherwise, you can use options in Safari to subscribe to a feed in Mail or
add the URL of an RSS feed in the dialog box that appears when you select File ➤ Add RSS
Feeds… in Mail’s menu bar.
When you initially subscribe to an RSS feed in Mail, it will appear in the RSS area in the
Mailbox column; however, when you select a feed, an arrow will appear to the right of it that
will bump the feed up to your Inbox. This will not only add new RSS items to your Inbox but
will also notify you when new RSS items are downloaded.
In general, feed items appear and behave as messages, while feeds behave as individual mailboxes.
You can even sort your feeds into separate mailboxes to help keep them organized (and
read many feeds at once).
If you want to unsubscribe to a feed, you can select Mailbox ➤ Delete Feed... from the menu
bar (or Delete Feed from the feed’s contextual menu), which will delete the feed and remove any
items.
Address Book
Figure 11-13. A New Note window in Mail
waiting for information
Address Book (Figure 11-14) is Mac OS X’s primary tool for managing contact information. It
allows you to add contact information about individuals and organizations, create groups, and
even access networked directory services.
The Address Book in Leopard provides a three-column view by default (but also has a view
that contains just the address card). The Group column is where you can create groups to contain
multiple contacts, the second column contains the names of individual contacts, and the last
area contains the address card for the selected individual.